Children in Golf Workshops
Children in Golf workshops are run across the Country and can be accessed via the CiG website.
CiG run these workshops to increase awareness of Child Protection issues in golf
Workshops are a useful way of obtaining more information about child protection, to ask questions, and gain advice about specific issues that you have encountered in your work with young golfers. Children in Golf has a number of tutors licensed to deliver the sportscoachUK workshop “Safeguarding and Protecting Children”.
New Guidelines for Safeguarding Children In Golf
The Children in Golf Strategy Group (CiG) is proud to announce that following an extensive review by both the Group and volunteer representatives from the major stakeholders, the Guidelines for Safeguarding Children in Golf have been overwhelmingly approved and adopted by all of the games authorities.
The previous document, The Children in Golf Resource Pack is now obsolete and will be replaced by the new publication.
The Guidelines have been produced to help and support County Unions, County Associations, clubs, members, coaches, PGA Golf Professionals, staff, volunteers and parents to fulfil their roles and responsibilities in this important area of the game of golf.
The new Guidelines will be available from 1st March 2008 and all English affiliated Clubs and Counties will be sent copies. A copy will also be sent to everyone who has attended one of the Safeguarding in Protecting Children (SPC) workshops run in England by golf the past 18 months.
Guidance on how to write and implement essential policies and their supporting procedures, Codes of Conduct and specific guidance on how children and those responsible for their safety can be protected form the very basics of this comprehensive advisory publication.
Chairman of CiG, David Owen said: “I am delighted that all the major stakeholders involved in golf have given the “thumbs up” to the revised Guidelines. It has taken a considerable degree of effort and patience in gaining the consensus of all parties. I am confident that what we now have is a useful and usable package of advice that will support all of us involved with children playing golf”.
Other Home Unions and CiG partners will issue the Guidelines under their own established systems.
The Guidelines will also be available to download free through the CiG Web site www.childreningolf.org, or by hard copy at the online shop on the EGU Web site www.englishgolfunion.org for the price of £4.00 inc P&P and will be included within the documentation issued to all future attendees of SPC Workshops.